Remaking Domestic Intelligence (hoover Inst Press Publication)
by Richard A. Posner /
2011 / English / PDF
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A new solution for reforming U.S. domestic intelligence Domestic
intelligence in the United States today is undermanned,
uncoordinated, technologically challenged, and dominated by an
agency—the FBI—that is structurally unsuited to play the central
role in national security intelligence. Despite its importance to
national security, it is the weakest link in the U.S. intelligence
system. In
A new solution for reforming U.S. domestic intelligence Domestic
intelligence in the United States today is undermanned,
uncoordinated, technologically challenged, and dominated by an
agency—the FBI—that is structurally unsuited to play the central
role in national security intelligence. Despite its importance to
national security, it is the weakest link in the U.S. intelligence
system. InRemaking Domestic Intelligence,
Remaking Domestic Intelligence, Richard A. Posner
reveals all the dangerous weaknesses undermining our domestic
intelligence in the United States and offers a new solution: a
domestic intelligence agency modeled on the concept and basic
design of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He details
why the FBI, because its primary activity is law enforcement, is
not the solution to the problem of domestic intelligence and how a
new agency, lodged in the Department of Homeland Security, would
have no authority to engage in law enforcement and thus avoid the
deep tension between criminal investigation and national security
intelligence that plagues the FBI. He also shows how a new U.S.
domestic intelligence agency might offer additional advantages over
our current structure even in terms of civil liberties.
Richard A. Posner
reveals all the dangerous weaknesses undermining our domestic
intelligence in the United States and offers a new solution: a
domestic intelligence agency modeled on the concept and basic
design of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He details
why the FBI, because its primary activity is law enforcement, is
not the solution to the problem of domestic intelligence and how a
new agency, lodged in the Department of Homeland Security, would
have no authority to engage in law enforcement and thus avoid the
deep tension between criminal investigation and national security
intelligence that plagues the FBI. He also shows how a new U.S.
domestic intelligence agency might offer additional advantages over
our current structure even in terms of civil liberties.